Ball Aerospace has designed, built, and characterized a compact refrigeration system for cooling very low temperature infrared imagers. The system is robust, will be integrated into an airborne application, and can also ...

This paper examines inequality within nanohealth research. After conducting a bibliometric analysis of Web of Science and PubMed, I conclude that most nanotechnology research is geared towards diseases that affect the rich ...

The combination of low gravity and high density of Titan's atmosphere makes powered, aerodynamic flight on that Saturnian moon energetically more favorable than at any other known location in the Solar System. Titan also ...

At the University of Twente, a 14.5 K hydrogen-based sorption cooler is under development. It can be used as a stand-alone 14.5 K cooler, or as a precooler, e.g., in combination with a 4 K heliumbased sorption cooler. The ...

This paper reports on the development of an Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration (AMRR) system for space applications. The AMRR can continuously provide remote/distributed cooling at about 2 K and reject heat at ...

The performance of large-capacity single-stage pulse-tube coolers at temperatures below 70 K is often hampered by Rayleigh streaming, or the natural boundary-layer convection that occurs in the buffer tube (‘pulse tube’). ...

Discourses on (inter)disciplinarity in design usually debate methods of constructing epistemological frameworks and procedures of practice - yet have inadequately extended to qualifying the artifact(s) thereby generated. ...

Meaning in design work can potentially be implied, attached or altogether disregarded. A condition which may indicate that meaning, even in the loosest of semiotic arguments, amounts to mere arbitrariness. In order to ...

The ablation of the char layer in ablative material is usually described in term of recession velocity of the overall surface. This description is valid for dense materials. However, the recession of the average surface ...

The recent technological obsessions fueled by the perforation of sophisticated structural, environmental, and visual computer simulations have re-ignited the interest in the realm of building performance. However, without ...

Ethical controversy over human embryonic stem cell research has led this field to be regulated by an atypically heterogeneous policy environment. This analysis takes advantage of one such area of heterogeneity, the presence ...

This paper analyzes the impact of academic inbreeding in relation to academic research and proposes a new conceptual framework for its analysis. We find that mobility at the early research career stage is decisive in ...

This paper seeks to explain the mechanisms by which friendship affects productivity of academic scientists. The quality of professional relationships determines the individual scientists' ability to pool resources from ...

In this paper, we analyze access logs of an institutional repository and show access flows to the repository. In addition to log files of the repository, we also use those of the linking system which connects the repository ...

In the last five years the web has exploded with new tools and websites that innovative services and new ways to collaborate. Although many of these new sites gain mention for being used in public services, they can also ...

The library community of the present is completely obsessed with the future. This isn't surprising; it's clear that society and technology are changing together in ways that will transform libraries dramatically over the ...

This presentation will explore efforts to build community partnerships that have allowed the AU Library to improve communications, marketing/outreach, and bring in new resources to benefit our users and increase the library's ...